Binyamin Yisrael- I know you are a huge fan of public transportation systems so here is a little info for you:
The CVS that was looted and burnt out is located right on top of the Penn/North subway station. Another infamous picture from Monday shows a Maryland transportation vehicle on fire. That is right in front of the Penn/North subway station right next to a very small and very old gated in Jewish Cemetery! http://baltimoreheritage.org/tours/behind-the-scenes-tour-of-the-etting-family-cemetery/ few Jews even know that it exists.
I checked out the stations at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Metro_Subway . I never used that station. I used the ones near the light rail: Lexington Market and Charles Center. Besides that, I only used Reisterstown Plaza and the first and last stops (John Hopkins and Owings Mills). The first time I ever took the Baltimore subway, I took it to John Hopkins and then took the whole line. On the way back, I stopped at Reisterstown Plaza to eat at the kosher restaurant. It was after I went to a Phillies game against the Orioles. Since it was a Sunday and I didn't know the light rail doesn't run late on Sundays, I experienced an affirmative action story. I was going to get on a bus but the driver told me it doesn't go to Penn Station. He told me to take a different bus on a different street but I got lost. I should have just walked along the light rail tracks since I knew they go to Penn Station. It took me forever to find the way to Penn Station. In the meantime I saw affirmative action people hanging out under I-95 at what I think was a homeless center. The bus driver I mentioned was black but at the end a black on the street told me how to get to Penn Station.
That was in 2012. In 2001, I visited the Jewish Museum on Lloyd Street and I didn't know how to get to the Jewish area and no one at the museum knew either. Someone thought I would need to take a taxi from the light rail. That's before I knew where the subway stations were. Lloyd Street was the Jewish area but it's now affirmative action. They had some deli in "Cornbeef Row". I wonder if any kosher deils were there before it became an affirmative action area. Is that near the cemetery you mentioned?
Another affirmative action experience I had on a different trip to Balitmore was that when I was waiting for the light rail to go back to Penn Station, I heard "Allahu Akbar" so I looked around and it was coming from a mosque nearby. Another time I saw a black woman on the Baltimore subway (I think it was in a station.) hitting her kid for going to the bathroom in their pants. You can imagine Chaim telling such a story from the New York subway. That incident was from the same trip in 2012 I mentioned above.
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